If you have selfish ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.”

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democrac

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.

All that I am or ever hope to be,
I owe to my angel mother

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong

It is necessary to be honest and truthful in life because eventually, the truth will come to light, and people will see through the deception.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father’s child has

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one

I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in

We have a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man

The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your year

My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt

A house divided against itself cannot stand

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on

Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves

Whatever you are, be a good one

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always righ

The best way to predict your future is to create it.